Time for The Weekender! Salute is only a week away (we can’t wait!) and we talk about our plans for the show. As well as that we’re loving the look of Mantic’s Deadzone Terrain and talk about how Titanfall is inspiring our gaming table ideas.Warren also discusses plans for moving forward with Warhammer 40,000 and we get a sneaky peek at some Kingdom Death Miniatures!

I am getting back into 40k myself but am looking through my collection to see what I can use, my plan is to have a chaos and orc ally force. so far model wise I am using deadzone rebs, deadzone 3rd gen plague and my infinity models as cultists, deadzone plague gen 1 as demon prince, gen 2 as spawn, khador manowar as terminators, khador gun carriage as forgefiend, havent figured out the rest.

as for warpath mantic has now got either released or in the works 4 games set in the warpath universe (project pandora, deadzone, dreadball/dreadball xtreme) which is really helping to flesh the world out. I cant wait till that happens

Great to hear a shout out for JAG, the finest sculptor in our industry in my humble opinion. Would be great to see the site shine a light on the some of the great creative people who are sculpting our minis.

- no more than 200 pts - uses the following FOC – (0-1) elites – (0-2) troops – (0-1) fast attack - you must purchase complete squads - any 40k codex, codex supplement, or official updates in WD may be used – no Forge World or other expansions may be used. - you may not take allies or fortifications - no flyers - no model may have more than 2 wounds before leader upgrades - must have at least 3 models - vehicles must have a combined armor of 33 (front+side+rear) - no model may have a 2+ save - (0-3) models must be selected to be specialists - your leader will be the model with the highest leadership, if ties then you can choose. Here is a link to the rules:http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m3460063a_Kill_Team_Rules_Pack_2013.4.pdf not sure why but unable to enter the link correctly the games- and the workshop.com… should be together

The document spryte linked is the rules for an event held last year. The current version of Kill Team released just before Christmas as an ebook/iBook says nothing about banning FW. It does say the team has to be from a single codex but I think it would be a pretty mean spirited opponent who insisted on sticking to the letter, rather than the spirit of a rule which is more about not allowing allies in such a small force.

I’m pretty sure you could make a mechanicum Kill Team using the army list in the Horus Heresy books and most people would be delighted to play against it.

I know we don’t like talking money on BOW, but I wanted to make a point about the Death Star terrain, more importantly the KS. The terrain boards and extras are awesome and would really enhance the gaming experience; but as usual a US based KS is way OTT on the delivery costs. You can pretty much add 50% to the pledge level for delivery here to the UK. If you compare that to the Mantic costs to the rest of the world (notwithstanding they were free to the UK AND the US) and it’s pricing a lot of people out of the market. It’s the same for the Dwarven Cavern terrain, that has done amazingly well btw.

I was trying to work out from all the bleeps whether there is some hidden subliminal message in morse code hidden in this episode. I gave up after getting A-R-S… I wish I could go to Salute. I have no desire to go to Wanghomer World.

Glad you liked it Warren. It should be full Dv chaos, I have another one of the GD minis if you want it and I have some Night Lords but they are painted didn’t think you would want them, but its you want I can send them over

Got in from a hard days work today to find my KD pin up box awaiting me. What can I say, it blew me away completely. Was mad enough to back the KS to the hilt so I have a mountain of this goodness coming at some point I’m both proud and ashamed to say. Will be a long time before I even scratch the surface when it comes though so if you guys are interested in any support for resourcing future coverage/unboxings etc I would be delighted to help any way I can. I’m really passionate about the game and yet not too po-faced to see the lighter ‘ahem’ interpretation of some of the design choices Poots has made. Not at all an expert but planning on this being my thing for the foreseeable. Warren I’ll get in touch if you’re interested?

As for the bases, a big part of the game aesthetic is that the world’s ground is covered in stone faces and Adam has created custom inserts that can be slotted into the bases instead to provide a basing solution that is simple, elegant, beautiful and also horrific – everything KD stands for.

Justin brother, tone down the pitch on your bleep, I’m painting a model, listening away and that thing pierces like a bloody electric shock; I’ve now got a Bakunin Sineater with a squiggly blue chest splotch… You’re punishing us, not warren – now if you wanted to punish the offender with and electric shock, or an air horn; that might be worth the jolt